WG3526 USB Tether Setup

[tmhise]

Hello all,

Ive just moved out to the country and a complete noob when it comes to setting up my own home networking solution. I did some research and figured the easiest solution to getting setup quickly was to purchase a WG3526 w/o a modem installed and tether an iPhone 7 to it via USB. I was able to successfully flash it with this.

openwrt-19.07.4-ramips-mt7621-zbt-wg3526-16M-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

However im not able to select my device as the modem. Is there a driver that needs to be installed on the device to support iPhones or anything else im missing? So far ive been following the tutorial that BillA provided on this topic: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=10303#p10303

Thank you in advance!

[Didneywhorl]

I'm not familiar with the openWRT firmware, but I'm fairly certain using GoldenOrb/Rooter instead may be simpler for you. I believe BillA uses rooter as well. Not 100% though.

https://ofmodemsandmen.com

[tmhise]

Ok so i figured out I can connect my iphone over wifi via hotspot and got that set up pretty quickly. I am however now getting throttled because the router is directly connected through my hotspot. Ive added these lines to the custom firewall portion, but whenever i 'ping 192.168.1.1' on my local terminal, I get back TTL 64. Ive followed BillA's 'Tethering a phone to a router via WiFi' portion pretty close. The only step I havent done is selecting the tethered wwan0 device as my modem because it the firmware doesnt show it as an option. I have reflashed my firmware and am now using openwrt-WG3526-GO2020-05-24-upgrade.bin if that makes a difference.

iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -o wwan0 -j TTL --ttl-set 117
iptables -t mangle -I PREROUTING -i wwan0 -j TTL --ttl-set 117